I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but a great show ended last night. Yeah, sure, okay, The Leftovers took its final, elegiac bow on HBO, but I’m talking about Starz‘s The White Princess. The soapy, dreamy, historic drama starring Jodie Comer as Elizabeth of York finished its limited series run yesterday. And if I’m being completely honest with you guys, it low key became my favorite spring watch (not called Victorian Slum House).

What precisely do I mean by that? It became the one show I always shoved aside time on my Sundays to watch. Sometimes TV viewing can feel like homework — there are too many good things to keep up with – and yet I kept up with The White Princess even as I fell slightly behind schedule on splashier shows like The Handmaid’s Tale. Part of this is sheer scheduling kismet. Since Starz puts new episodes of its original series on its streaming site hours ahead of their broadcast premiere, I could catch The White Princess on Sunday afternoon, aka the time I would normally spend twiddling my thumbs waiting for a new Twin Peaks episode to drop. The other part of this is that The White Princess is just a fun show. It’s got juicy drama, family feuds, old-timey plague masks, and gorgeous costumes. Was it going to challenge what I thought about the meaning of life? No, but it did help me forget about said life for an hour every week.

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The White Princess kicked off its eight-episode run by presenting itself as an unlikely romance. Young Elizabeth of York has to marry the invading Welsh lord Henry Tudor (Jacob Collins-Levy) to unite the warring kingdom. She scorns him. It’s not just that she is a York and he’s backed by the old Lancaster guard; he murdered her uncle/lover King Richard III on the field of Bosworth. The two nobles’ prodding mothers aren’t helping heal the rift. Elizabeth’s mother, Elizabeth Woodville (Essie Davis taking over from The White Queen‘s Rebecca Ferguson), would happily see her own grandsons die if it meant her long-lost son Richard of York could take the throne back and Henry’s controlling mother, Margaret Beaufort (Michelle Fairley), doesn’t want anyone else to have his heart. It’s a lot.

That’s how the show started, but it’s not precisely how it all ended. By the end of The White Princess, the drama had shifted starkly. Spoiler alert: Lizzie may have finally embraced her life as a Tudor queen, but that just meant she had to wrestle with how to handle her own family. Ultimately, she has to betray her own to unite England. Some of the things she does in the last episode were so upsetting to me that I had to leave the room as they took place (and I’m a lady who thinks Game of Thrones is fun).

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The White Princess kept my attention by telling a complete story in eight brisk episodes. It gave me corsets and brocade, battle scenes and intense dream sequences. Oh, and someone murders their true love with a pillow. It’s intense. It’s also over now, so you can binge through all eight episodes at your own pace.

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Then again, it might not be totally and completely over. The show may not end on a traditional cliffhanger, but dramatically setting up the future Cardinal Wolsey as young Prince Henry’s tutor strongly hints that Starz may be flirting with giving us a dramatization of the Tudor clan’s next chapter. It wouldn’t be a horrible idea. After all, hardly any shows have shown us the pomp and passion of young Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon’s early court.